After a wait of two and a half years, the US administration is launching its Middle East peace plan Tuesday -- with an economic initiative that the Palestinians are boycotting. For this most unconventional of US presidents, Donald Trump's Middle East peace-making bid is unlike decades of...

Israel blocked fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip Tuesday, citing new incendiary balloons from the Palestinian enclave. The move follows "the release of arson balloons from the Gaza Strip toward the State of Israel" which caused fires across the border, the Israeli defence ministry...

Finance officials were flying into Bahrain on Monday for a US-led peace conference that holds out billions of dollars for the Palestinians, whose leaders pronounced the idea dead on arrival. Led by President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, the Peace to Prosperity...

An Israeli Cabinet minister and ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu questioned Sunday a key component of the Trump administration's new Mideast peace plan. Tzachi Hanegbi, minister for regional cooperation, said that the U.S. proposal for a land link between the West Bank and Gaza...